Embryonic stem cell factors undifferentiated transcription factor-1 (UFT-1) and reduced expression protein-1 (REX-1) are widely expressed in human skin and may be involved in cutaneous differentiation but not in stem cell fate determination

International Journal of Experimental Pathology

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 326-332

  Reinisch, Christina M ^a   Mildner, Michael ^a   Petzelbauer, Peter ^a   Pammer, Johannes ^b  

^a Universitatsklinik fur Dermatologie   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Carcinoma; Keratinocyte; Reduced expression protein 1; Stem cells; Undifferentiated transcription factor 1

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR REX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR UTF1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIDERMIS; HAIR; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SKIN APPENDAGE; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SKIN TUMOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DOWN-REGULATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 80052830835     PISSN: 09599673     EISSN: 13652613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2613.2011.00769.x     Document Type: Article

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